• Heikki@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I agree. The title reminds minds of the saying, “Knowing your shit” vs. “Knowing you’re shit”

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      5 months ago

      “A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

      “Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.

      “I’m a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”

      The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

      Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”

      ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

      Very entertaining book, by the way. You wouldn’t expect a book about punctuation to be entertaining, but it is.